Post by Grey on Mar 6, 2005 11:18:44 GMT -5
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Riders on the Budapest subway get to see parts of Art Spiegelman's comic book 'Maus' in which the New York-based artist draws Jews as mice and Germans as cats in a black-and-white interpretation of his own parents' survival of the Auschwitz death camp(AFP/Attilia Kisbenedek)
BUDAPEST (AFP) - The Budapest subway opened an exhibition of the work of New York-based artist Art Spiegelman who has translated the horror of the Holocaust into a comic book novel.
Pictures from Spiegelman's "Maus," in which he depicts Jews as mice and Germans as cats in a black-and-white interpretation of his own parents' survival of the Auschwitz death camp, have gone on display on two subway lines.
The pictures will be shown for one month in the capital's 46 metro cars.
Culture Minister Andras Bozoki said the comics reminded metro passengers of the world of children but the pictures raiseD serious questions.
"What happens when there are adults who never grow up, for whom the use of force and murder are only games," he asked at the exhibition's opening at one of the capital's metro stations.
"This question is the subject of the infernal humour of Spiegelman's Auschwitz comics," Bozoki said.
Some 450,000 Hungarian Jews were killed at the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland during World War II and altogether an estimated 600,000 Hungarian Jews died in the Holocaust.
Riders on the Budapest subway get to see parts of Art Spiegelman's comic book 'Maus' in which the New York-based artist draws Jews as mice and Germans as cats in a black-and-white interpretation of his own parents' survival of the Auschwitz death camp(AFP/Attilia Kisbenedek)
BUDAPEST (AFP) - The Budapest subway opened an exhibition of the work of New York-based artist Art Spiegelman who has translated the horror of the Holocaust into a comic book novel.
Pictures from Spiegelman's "Maus," in which he depicts Jews as mice and Germans as cats in a black-and-white interpretation of his own parents' survival of the Auschwitz death camp, have gone on display on two subway lines.
The pictures will be shown for one month in the capital's 46 metro cars.
Culture Minister Andras Bozoki said the comics reminded metro passengers of the world of children but the pictures raiseD serious questions.
"What happens when there are adults who never grow up, for whom the use of force and murder are only games," he asked at the exhibition's opening at one of the capital's metro stations.
"This question is the subject of the infernal humour of Spiegelman's Auschwitz comics," Bozoki said.
Some 450,000 Hungarian Jews were killed at the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland during World War II and altogether an estimated 600,000 Hungarian Jews died in the Holocaust.
